Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:38:43 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Daniel Smith <dks@its.uct.ac.za> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wide to Narrow conversion on ncr0? Message-ID: <199808140938.JAA13084@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Aug 1998 17:51:37 %2B0200." <35D45D09.CA73E188@its.uct.ac.za>
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Drop into the BIOS on the card and set the device(s) in question to 8-bit mode. > > We're getting errors installing 2.2.7-RELEASE onto a SD39173W 9Gb > Baracuda plugged onto a Symbios 53C876e narrow bus with a wide-to-narrow > converter (the economics of scale - we had to get another 4 of them > anyway :-) > > The ncr driver picks up as two 53c875 buses as expected but then appears > to try using the Baracuda in wide mode (possibly due to negotiation > responses from the drive?) > > (The disk verifies fine and *wince* Windows 95 can boot OK...) > > The last two errors before a long pause are... > > sd4(ncr1:0:0): COMMAND FAILED (9 ff) 0f12b0000. > ncr1: aborting job > ncr1:0: ERROR (90:0) (8-a6-0) (0/5) @ (script a0:43000060). > ncr1: script cmd = 078ab0000 > ncr1: regdump: da 00 00 05 47 00 00 0f 71 08 00 a6 80 00 00 02. > ncr1: restart (fatal error). > > sd4(ncr1:0:0): COMMAND FAILED (9 ff) 0f12b0000. > sd4 could not mode sense(4). Using fictitious geometry > 0MB (0 512 byte sectors) > ncr1: aborting job > > Any help most appreciated > > Cheers, > > Daniel. > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Daniel Smith Senior Systems Software Programmer > University of Cape Town Systems Administrator > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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